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3. THE POSSESSION OF THE LAND AND THEIR SEPARATION
CHAPTER 7
_ 1. The command to destroy the Canaanites (Deuteronomy 7:1)_
2. The command to destroy their idolatry (Deuteronomy 7:5)
3. The promise...
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A CURSED THING. Hebrew. thing devoted to destruction; Compare
Deuteronomy 13:17; Joshua 6:18; Isaiah 34:5; Isaiah 43:28...
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_a devoted thing ḥerem_, see on Deuteronomy 2:34; cp. Deuteronomy
13:17 (18). Persons using or touching anything that was _ḥerem_or
under the ban, themselves became _ḥerem_, cp. Joshua 6:18;...
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b. DIFFICULTIES OF THE HOLY WAR (Deuteronomy 7:17-26)
17 If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how
can I dispossess them? 18 thou shalt not be afraid of them: thou shalt
well...
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PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONTINUED)
In this chapter the people are warned against temptations to idolatry
and enjoined to avoid contact with their idolatrous neighbours: see on
Exodus 23:32; Numbers 2...
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ABOMINATION] i.e. an idol, as in Deuteronomy 16:22. A CURSED THING] RV
'a devoted thing,' a thing laid under the ban of extermination. The
verb from the same root is rendered UTTERLY DESTROY in Deuter...
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 7
V1 ‘The *LORD your God will bring you into the country that you
will possess. He will force o...
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These words are a special warning against the sin which Achan
committed (Joshua 7:21): “I coveted them, and took them.” They
also describe the consequences which he experienced, together with his
whol...
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וְ לֹא ־תָבִ֤יא תֹֽועֵבָה֙ אֶל
־בֵּיתֶ֔ךָ וְ
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THE BAN
Deuteronomy 7:1
As in the previous chapter we have had the Mosaic and Deuteronomic
statement of the internal and spiritual means of defending the
Israelite character and faith from the tempta...
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WHAT THE LORD DOES FOR HIS PEOPLE
Deuteronomy 7:12
The promises to obedience are enlarged upon with touching copiousness.
Love, blessing, keeping, peace, multiplication, fruit and health lie
along th...
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Continuing to deal with the responsibilities of the people as they
entered the land, Moses insisted upon the absolute necessity for the
maintenance of the attitude of separation to God. Stringent
inst...
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_An anathema. That is, a thing devoted to destruction; and which
carries along with it a curse. (Challoner) --- Like it. The curse
rested upon those who kept any of the spoils. This brought death upon...
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REFLECTIONS
MY soul! pause over the review which thou hast made in this chapter,
both of the enemies of Israel, and Israel's GOD driving them out
before him. Bring home to thine own heart the circumst...
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The gracious promise of GOD to put out Israel's enemies, by little and
little, merits the very particular consideration of all GOD'S Israel
now; for the battle is the same; and both the victory and gl...
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In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be
called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of
institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5, 6, AND 7.
In chapter 5 Moses reminds them of the ten commandments given in
Horeb; and it is to be remarked, that the deliverance out of Egypt
(not the rest...
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NEITHER SHALT THOU BRING AN ABOMINATION INTO THY HOUSE,.... An idol,
so the Targum of Jonathan, the abominations of idols and their
utensils, or what is ministered to them, with anything that appertai...
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_Lest thou be a cursed thing_ Hebrew, חרם, _cherem_, devoted to
utter destruction, as that and every thing was that had been employed
to an idolatrous use....
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1 All communion with the Nations is forbidden,
4 for feare of Idolatrie,
6 for the holinesse of the people,
9 for the nature of God in his Mercie and Iustice,
17 for the assurednesse of victorie w...
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ISRAEL SEPARATED TO GOD
(vs.1-11)
Again the Lord emphasizes the importance of Israel's sanctification
from the nations. When they entered the land, God would give them
victory over the inhabitants, a...
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12-26 We are in danger of having fellowship with the works of
darkness if we take pleasure in fellowship with those who do such
works. Whatever brings us into a snare, brings us under a curse. Let
us...
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A CURSED THING, i.e. devoted to utter destruction, as that was. See
JOSHUA 7:11,21,24, &c....
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When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou
goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee,...
seven nations greater and mightier than thou. And when the Lord th...
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Deuteronomy 7:26 bring H935 (H8686) abomination H8441 house H1004
destruction H2764 utterly H8262 (H8763) detest H
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THEY MUST THOROUGHLY CLEANSE THE LAND OF BOTH ITS PEOPLES AND ITS
IDOLATRY, AND HE HIMSELF WILL BE WITH THEM TO ENABLE THEM TO DO IT
(DEUTERONOMY 7:16).
This reference to their enemies who hate them l...
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Deuteronomy 7:22
I. There can be no doubt that these passages represent the Jewish
nation as bound to a perpetual conflict with idolatry. The resistance
was primarily an internal one. The members of t...
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CONTENTS: Command to be separate people and to destroy opposing
nations.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: Those who are taken into communion with God must have no
communication with the unfruitfu...
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Deuteronomy 7:3. _Neither make marriages with them._ See note on Ezra
10:2.
Deuteronomy 7:5. _And cut down their groves._ The patriarchal devotion
being performed at first on hills, and in places dest...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 7:25 BURN. See note on v. 5.
ABOMINATION refers to a significant sin with which God is especially
angry. devoted t
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CRITICAL NOTES.—Israel is forwarded against the idolatry of the
people whose country they were about to enter (_cf_. Deuteronomy
6:14). The nations were more powerful than Israel, but God would
delive...
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EXPOSITION
ENTIRE SEPARATION FROM IDOLATROUS NATIONS ENJOINED.
DEUTERONOMY 7:1
The Israelites were about to enter on a country occupied by idolaters,
and they are commanded not to spare them or to a...
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Now in chapter seven,
When God brings you into the land and cast out these enemies that are
bigger and stronger than you are; And he delivers them from before
you; and smites them, and destroys them;...
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Deuteronomy 13:17; Ezekiel 11:18; Ezekiel 14:7; Habakkuk 2:9; Hos